In addition to the Production environment, a test environment is also accessible to you.

1. Production : the live environment
2. Sandbox : test environment for market participants

In the following sections you will find all practical information about those environments.

Production is the live environment where actual auctions are running.

To request access to the production environment, please follow the guide available in the EAC webpage .

Sandbox is a test environment for market participants. You can use it to try out the EAC GraphQL API, for developing or testing your own integration. Its setup is similar to the production environment.

Future EAC releases will be deployed in the Sandbox environment priori to the production release allowing you to prepare yourself for the production go-live. The exact planning of such release will be communicated to you in due time.

To get access to the Sandbox environment, send an email with the subject Sandbox environment - Access Request to [email protected] and with [email protected] in cc.

The Mock Auctions environment is used for the mock auctions in preparation of the go-live. This is a production like environment aiming at validating that everything is ready for the go-live. The web application and the API are accessible, both require to authenticate with CIAM.

To request access to the Mock Auctions environment, both UI and API, please follow the instructions of the Mock Auctions guidance document available on the EAC web page .

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